Like to know the IP address of a website? You can use the
nslookup command or the
ping command but the former is probably faster. First let's use the nslookup command to find the IP address of about.com: Just execute
nslookup about.com and view the result. Make sure you don't confuse any private IP addresses that also show up in the nslookup results along side the public IP address of about.com, which is what IP address we're after.Now let's try using the ping command to find it: Execute
ping about.com and then look at the IP address between the brackets in the first line shown. Don't worry if the ping command "times out" during execution; all we needed here was the IP address. Using either Command Prompt trick, the IP address of about.com is shown as 207.241.148.80. You can use the same procedure with any website or any host name on your local network
